California Hospitals

During the current Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Scope of Work, select California hospitals will work with HSAG to focus their quality improvement efforts on several key areas in order to improve the level of patient safety delivered to California Medicare beneficiaries. Quality improvement will occur by:

• Reducing rates of health care-associated methicillin-resistant
  Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections.
  
  
• Reducing the incidence of pressure ulcers.
  
  
• Improving surgical safety and heart failure treatment.
  
  
• Providing technical assistance with hospital quality data reporting (QDR).
  
  
• Reviewing beneficiary complaints and discharge appeals .
  
  
• Improving drug safety.